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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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